I replaced WP long ago, first with hugo (bad decision), then that with ghost (better decision). Not because of traffic, but because of the sheer number of hacks against the code base of WP appearing as zero days, and the rather extreme upgrading pain (the zero-touch upgrades failed on me a number of times, and I had daily DB backups). I had caching turned up to 11, and that system could easily handle the load (at the peak I was getting a hit every few seconds).
Hugo is/was spectacularly terrible from the perspective of authoring rich content. I could do as well creating a directory tree and writing html by hand. Or markdown.
I guess as I get older, I'm less inclined to spend time on things that don't just work, and don't get in your way with (often bad) opinions on how you should work. WP felt like too great a risk to work with. It was getting expensive to buy plugins to secure the site, when it wasn't generating revenue to offset the costs. Hugo was simply painful to work with. Ghost seems about right. Though grafting in the commenting bits took a little bit of work, which violated my concern about just working.
There are no great blogging solutions. There are a bunch of options of various capability. WP needs caching/php-fpm to work at an acceptable level for reasonable traffic. Hugo (as static pages) wound up not needing much caching. Ghost doesn't need much caching either.
I replaced WP long ago, first with hugo (bad decision), then that with ghost (better decision). Not because of traffic, but because of the sheer number of hacks against the code base of WP appearing as zero days, and the rather extreme upgrading pain (the zero-touch upgrades failed on me a number of times, and I had daily DB backups). I had caching turned up to 11, and that system could easily handle the load (at the peak I was getting a hit every few seconds).
Hugo is/was spectacularly terrible from the perspective of authoring rich content. I could do as well creating a directory tree and writing html by hand. Or markdown.
I guess as I get older, I'm less inclined to spend time on things that don't just work, and don't get in your way with (often bad) opinions on how you should work. WP felt like too great a risk to work with. It was getting expensive to buy plugins to secure the site, when it wasn't generating revenue to offset the costs. Hugo was simply painful to work with. Ghost seems about right. Though grafting in the commenting bits took a little bit of work, which violated my concern about just working.
There are no great blogging solutions. There are a bunch of options of various capability. WP needs caching/php-fpm to work at an acceptable level for reasonable traffic. Hugo (as static pages) wound up not needing much caching. Ghost doesn't need much caching either.